2012 User Comparative Database Report
Based on data from 1,128 U.S. hospitals, the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides initial results that hospitals can use to compare their patient safety culture to other U.S. hospitals. In addition, the 2012 report presents results showing change over time for 650 hospitals that submitted data more than once. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and four appendixes, presenting data by hospital characteristics and respondent characteristics for the database hospitals overall and separately for the 650 trending hospitals.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a tool to help hospitals evaluate how well they had established a culture of safety